Client's challenge

PwC assisted a leading payments company with conducting an investigation to identify and examine suspicious customers in accordance with anti-money laundering regulations. Large volumes of customer and transaction data and no prior analytical expertise in this field created significant challenges for the client.

PwC's solution

Developed graph search tool to identify all direct and indirect customer and product connections for each customer - explored 90M entities and 180M relationships to quantify customer account structures and identify risky topologies.
Analyzed a data set of close to 1T transactions to develop a metric to identify suspicious customer and merchant relationships based on relationship strength relative to other cardholders.